The best employees do not always make the best managers. Being a manager requires a set of skills that go beyond being a good employee, including strong communication, motivational skills and a vision for the company's future. Work with your managers to determine their weaknesses, and then develop a plan to improve managerial performance. A strong management team is essential to your company's future success.

Interdepartmental Relations

Departments within a company need to work together to reach corporate goals and grow the company. A weak manager lacks the ability to interact with other departments and may even work to create an adversarial relationship with some groups that can be extremely counterproductive. For example, the sales manager might disagree with the way in which the marketing group presents products. Rather than address the issue and work to fix it, the sales manager may create a bad relationship between the sales department and marketing group.

Favoritism

A manager has her core of productive employees that strive to perform above corporate expectations. When a manager shows favoritism towards those core employees, the production and morale of the remaining staff members drop. A strong manager knows how to leverage top producers to motivate the rest of the group to succeed. The weak manager creates an unbalanced workload that is skewed heavily toward the top producers. This alienates the rest of the group and reduces the effectiveness of productive employees.

Discipline

Discipline in a workplace needs to be handled in a professional manner. When a manager has an issue with an employee, that issue needs to be discussed in a private setting so as to not embarrass the employee or raise attention to the issue. A weak manager reprimands employees in front of the entire staff, uses rage rather than reason to discipline employees, and makes a public spectacle of issues that should remain confidential.

Support

When a group puts together a project or a solution to a company issue, the subordinates expect the manager to support the group's efforts fully. When a weak manager is faced with adversity, he often blames subordinates and does not back up his employees when important issues are brought to light. Staff members quickly lose respect for a manager that does not support his group, and this leads to turnover and a drop in morale.

About the Author

George N. Root III began writing professionally in 1985. His publishing credits include a weekly column in the "Lockport Union Sun and Journal" along with the "Spectrum," the "Niagara Falls Gazette," "Tonawanda News," "Watertown Daily News" and the "Buffalo News." Root has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the State University of New York, Buffalo.